The Geometry of Innocence by Schles, Ken - 2001

NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Boston: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941, first printing. Folio, 9" x 12 1/4", 182pp., illustrated throughout with black and white photos, many full page. Pictorial cloth covered boards with red and white titles. Minor wear at heel and crown, slight bump/rub to lower tips. Very good, clean, attractive. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.

St. Martinville, La: Guirard, 1983. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Guirard: St. Martinville, LA, 1983, first printing. Oblong 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", 142pp., lavishly illustrated with full color plates. Signed by author on title page: "Greg Guirard, 12-83" with an additional inscription to artist Diana Kan on flyleaf: "To Diana Kan, With love and respect, Broussard Louisiana Class 1984". Fine in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with some surface rub. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to.

NEW ~ Museum catalogue from exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares in Coyoacan, Mexico, documenting nineteenth-century industries in Mexico. Eleven essays cover mining, manufacturing, transportation, and the like, with accompanying photographs and bibliographies. Introduction by Victoria Novelo. The essays cover the historical background of each topic -- glass, textile, and paper factories, mining, railroads, electricity, iron works, sugar mills, and more; poignant black-and-white photographs document abandoned machinery, ruined and overgrown factories. 274pp. Ilus. Minor shelf wear, scuffed cover. NOTE: Beware of dealers ignorant of the binding of their books.

NY: Dutton, 1978. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Dutton, 1978, first printing. Folio, 12 1/2" x 12 1/4", 168pp., numerous color plates, endpaper maps. Minor bump to upper corner of front cover, else fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

* SIGNED by author on title page, no inscription. * Stated First Edition. * Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new. * Jacket shows modest edge/ shelf wear, one small taped tear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care."
Places of Power, John Sexton's third book, transports the viewer to places few have experienced firsthand. Sexton's images explore the haunting mystery of ancient Anasazi cliff dwellings, the monumental scale of Hoover Dam, the massive energy of steam turbine power plants, and the intricacies of the Space Shuttle - the single most complex system ever assembled in human history. The eighty-three photographs in Places of Power bring the viewer into intimate contact with these amazing technological achievements. Seen through Sexton's eyes, these structures and machines built for utilitarian purposes are transformed into miraculous sculptures. The book includes a foreword by journalist… Read More

Softcover pamphlet, 1933, 80 pages in very good condition. There is mild to moderate rippling to bottom of many pages consistent with water but there is no staining (see scans). Wraps are very good with some scuffing. Author wrote several pamphlets of this nature so this is one of a series. Notable for photos of bodies in motion. Very interesting material. Please see scans of the item you will receive.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Book with all pages present, without creases/tears. Worn outer cover. Owner's signature covered in black pen on second title page (does not affect content). 216 pages, 21.8 x 29 x 2.7 cm / 5.24 x 0.98 x 8.46 inches This new collection of Peter Lindbergh's photographs presents his work from the past ten years. The prolific fashion and portrait photographer is one of the leading commercial artists of our day. His special subject are women.

Signed copy. Light tanning to pages edges, not affecting text or content.No tears/marks on either binding or paper. ///Published in Welsh and English in an edition of 850

New York: St. Martin's Press [0-312-08220-7] 1992, 1st printing. (Folio hardcover) np. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographic endpapers, photographs. "George Hurrell was the glamour photographer of the golden age of Hollywood. From the dawn of his career in 1928 until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty-seven, no Hollywood actor had realized the pinnacle of stardom until he or she was captured through the Hurrell lens". Time Period 1928-1990. (Photography, Actors, Cinema/Film, Glamor Photography, Hollywood, Movies, Photography, Stars).